IVANKA WROTE THIS GREAT SPEECH.

By Mudar Adnan Zahran

On the 23rd of August, the Israeli authorities allowed Palestinian passengers to travel from the West Bank to Cyprus via Ramon International Airport which is near Eilat, in Israel..  This is a pilot program to see if such procedure could be expanded and sustained.  For the Palestinians, it is also a drastic change from the regularly horrendous travel route over land to cross the border to Jordan and then on to Amman International Airport where treatment of Palestinian passengers in particular is said to be very poor.

A look at Palestinian social media proves beyond a doubt that the Palestinians are happy with the idea of travelling via Ramon Airport.  It gives them an unexpected freedom.

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— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) August 24, 2022

T. Belman.  I have never been a proponent of inter-faith dialogue.

Non-Orthodox rabbis embrace the progressive ideals of their Christian counterparts, using modern terms for an ancient hatred.

By Matthew M. Hausman, JD, INN     Aug 25, 2022,

In an outrageous display of moral vacancy, the Presbyterian Church (USA) recently labelled Israel an apartheid state – despite an abundance of evidence and legal precedent to the contrary. Though mainline protestant churches have grown increasingly hostile toward Israel based on false claims of human rights abuses and a disregard for Jewish history, their condemnations are simply modern iterations of the same doctrinal prejudice used to demean Jews and Judaism for two millennia. Their anti-Israel bias is vile but historically consistent, and it raises the issue of how progressive rabbis can sit with liberal activist clergy who promote hoary antisemitic myths wrapped in the language of human rights advocacy.

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I HAVE ALWAYS FOUND KUSHNER TO BE VERY INTELLIGENT AND VERY ARTICULATE.

MEMRI

Saudi Arabia’s Education Ministry recently announced the introduction of a new curriculum for the kingdom’s schools,  which involves, among other changes, a reduction of hours devoted to religious studies. As part of the reform, Qur’an and Islamic studies have been merged into a single subject and the number of classes devoted to these two topics has been reduced from 34 to 15 weekly classes in middle school and from 38 to 30 weekly classes in primary school.

In addition, a new subject, financial education, will be introduced in high school. Further changes in the curriculum have not year been made public, but the online London-based daily Raialyoum.com reported that the hours devoted to math, science, English and Arabic will be increased.

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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”    25.8.22

*Has Israel’s control of the mountain ridges of Judea & Samaria enhanced or injured US interests?

Will the proposed Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria boost or undermine US interests?

*During the October 1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty ceremony, top Jordanian military officers warned their Israeli counterparts that a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River would doom the pro-US Hashemite regime east of the River, transforming Jordan into a uncontrollable terrorist heaven, haunting the highly vulnerable pro-US regimes of the oil-producing Arab Gulf states, as well as the pro-US Egypt.
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By Martin Sherman, IDSF

The principal architect of the Oslo Accords, Nobel laureate Shimon Peres, warned of the deadly perils entailed in the policy he later embraced.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who will guard the guardians themselves) –Roman poet,  Juvenal, in  Satires (c. AD 100–127)

The recent visit to the Middle East by US President Joe Biden nudged the “Palestinian issue” back toward the focus of international attention, after having been placed decidedly on the back burner during the Trump -Netanyahu era. With this shift of emphasis, the question of the prudence and practicality of significant Israeli withdrawal from land beyond the 1967 “Green Line” will, in all likelihood, assume greater pertinence and prominence than in the recent past,

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Redacted with Natali and Clayton Morris 25 Aug 2022

T. Belman. “Religious Zionism would work to advance judicial reform, governance in the Negev and Galil – two areas with large Arab populations – extend Israeli sovereignty into the West Bank”.  So why can’t he join with Shaked?

Current Knesset members grab the four realistic spots behind Smotrich, who is reportedly negotiating to unify with rebel former Yamina MK Amichai Chikli

By CARRIE KELLER-LYNN, TOI     23 August 2022, 

Religious Zionism’s Tuesday primary ended with existing lawmakers holding the only realistic spots on the party’s Knesset slate and failing to open its ranks to varied voices, as party leader Bezalel Smotrich said was the primary’s intention.

Current lawmakers MKs Ofir Sofer, Orit Strock, Simcha Rothman and Michal Waldiger were the top vote-getters, respectively, nabbing election slate spots behind Smotrich.

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Texas Senator fires back after State Department spokesperson claims Iran deal is predicated “on the most rigorous and intensive inspections”.

By Elad Benari, INN  25.8.22

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Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Wednesday fired back after State Department spokesperson Ned Price claimed the nuclear deal with Iran, that the Biden administration seeks to return to, is predicated “on the most rigorous and intensive verification and monitoring regime ever negotiated. If we were to get back into this deal and if Iran were to attempt to violate it, we would know.”

In a lengthy Twitter thread responding to Price, Cruz wrote, “Complete horse manure. The Iran nuclear deal is designed to let the Ayatollah cheat his way to a nuclear arsenal.”

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By Debbie Reiss, WORLD ISRAEL NEWS      24.8.33

Israeli Adir F-35I stealth bombers. (Israeli Air Force)

 Israel and the U.S. also carried out “massive” drills simulating aerial and maritime attacks on Iran, the London-based Elaph reported.  

by Alan M. Dershowitz, GATESTONE  •  August 24, 2022

The ACLU, which has long objected to the overuse of search warrants instead of subpoenas, is silent about the search of Mar-a-Lago (pictured). As long as the goal is to get Trump, anything goes including hypocrisy, inconstancy and unconstitutionality. (Photo by Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty Images)

• Many of my friends on the left fear [Trumpism] as much as many on the right feared communism in the 1950s. And they may have a point. But not enough of a point to destroy a century of progress in civil liberties, free speech, due process, and the rule of law.
• Articles are now frequently appearing in the mainstream media demanding compromises with important rights in the name of “Getting Trump.”
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Tierney’s Real News  24.8.22

This op-ed ran in the American Thinker a month ago and got no play. It should have. It’s a must read. I know many people who say the same things about President Trump and I am glad M.B. Mathews had the courage to admit he was wrong!

I was wrong about Trump

By M.B. Mathews, AM THINKER

I recently wrote a column about why I believed Trump should not run in 2024. I was wrong. I allowed my distaste for Trump’s personality to override his virtues, which are considerable.

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For Ayelet Shaked, conservatism is not just a political philosophy, her friends say, but a way of life. With the collapse of the coalition, will the now-outgoing interior minister rise above the controversy around her and chart her own, new hard-right course?

By Hilo Glazer, HAARETZ June 28/22

Few cabinet ministers have brought about a revolution in their areas of responsibility and left a genuine imprint. Ariel Sharon did so as minister of housing and construction, as did Benjamin Netanyahu in his capacity as finance minister, and Moshe Kahlon, during his tenure as communications minister. There are other examples – some recalled in a positive light, others negatively – but in any case it’s a short list. Three years ago, a new name was added to it: Ayelet Shaked.

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T. Belman.  I am hoping this will be the dominant issue in this election.  The author will be joining Smoltrich in his party.

The applications by Jewish communities in the Galilee to develop their by expanding their urban footprint have been rejected time and again.

By  Amichai Chikli, ISRAEL HAYOM   23.8.22

We are 70 days out from an election, but it appears that nothing of substance has been debated on the airwaves.

This means that strategic questions that could very well shape the future of our children and grandchildren are put aside while we focus on various electoral gimmicks and political fluff.

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